Episode 23: Morgan Parker

Written By HR Hegnauer

ID: Morgan (left) and Rachel (right) smile at the camera. Morgan is a Black woman with a bright smile, light brown braids pulled back, and an eyebrow piercing. Rachel is a white woman with blue glasses, brown shoulder-length hair, and big smile.

Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Morgan Parker (author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night and There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé) in front of a LIVE audience at the KGB Red Room on February 27, 2017. Morgan reads new work, discusses what she’s working on, who she’s writing for, and her 13 husbands. They talk about confessional poetry, performance, blackness, whiteness, therapy, Beyoncé, authenticity,  revision, therapy as reparations, and Nelly.


Books by Morgan Parker

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